Wednesday What's New in History | March 23, 2016

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This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.

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Human history in Ireland shown to start at least 2,500 years earlier than previously thought: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-bone-discovery-re-writes-human-history.html

(Also, prehistoric Irishmen fought bears, and more importantly from my side of things, ate bears. "What was in the Irish diet before the potato?" "Bears.")